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Greetings all,
I have an issue where I am having trouble converting an ISO8601 timestamp into a readable value. These timestamp values are located and grabbed from an external XML file and I need a simple way to convert it into a readable value before posting on an HTML page.
Here is the code I’m initially pulling the data with:
[CODE]<span id=”Created0″></span>
<span id=”Created1″></span>
<span id=”Created2″></span>
etc…
<script>
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
{// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
}
else
{// code for IE6, IE5
xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject(“Microsoft.XMLHTTP”);
}
xmlhttp.open(“GET”,”externallink=xml”,false);
xmlhttp.send();
xmlDoc=xmlhttp.responseXML;
var i=0,d;
while (d=document.getElementById(“Created”+i)) d.innerHTML=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName(“Created”)[i++].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
</script>
And an example of the external code from the XML file:
[CODE]<PostItems>
<member>
<Author>user:chayavic</Author>
<Body>@joelboss just saved someone’s Christmas. What have you done today? There’s still time. #c2alerts</Body>
<Topics>
<member>hashtag:c2alerts</member>
<member>user:joelboss</member>
</Topics>
<Created>2012-12-12T23:41:50.948Z</Created>
<Votes>
<DownVotes>0</DownVotes>
<UpVotes>2</UpVotes>
<UpVoters>
<member>
<Timestamp>2012-12-12T23:49:22.789Z</Timestamp>
<Voter>user:snyderm</Voter>
</member>
<member>
<Timestamp>2012-12-13T00:17:28.380Z</Timestamp>
<Voter>user:amyschra</Voter>
</member>
</UpVoters>
</Votes>
<PostId>da3316a1-bdda-40c6-8429-5d694ca6ecd3</PostId>
</member>
It appears to grab and display the “Created” items perfectly, but how would I render them out of the ISO8601 format into something readable, say “December 13th, 8:32pm” before actually defining it as a span? (Or even AFTER it defines them, then just modifies the value?)
Been banging my head against a wall trying to figure this one out ? Any help is appreciated!